Details are still emerging about Alien: Covenenant, the new Alien prequel/Prometheus sequel from director Ridley Scott, but we do know that Michael Fassbender will be playing two different androids: a new character called Walter, as well as his Prometheus character, David. In an interview with ComingSoon.net, Fassbender revealed how the two will differ.
“I think Walter’s a real different kettle of fish. David was definitely a work-in-progress, somewhat of a prototype I suppose,” he said. “The elements of him that were the human elements I think people found a little disturbing, so Walter’s more of a straightforward robot. Pretty logical, much more of a servant without the ego.”
Given those descriptions, I can begin to dream that we’ll see a Fassbender-versus-Fassbender android fight. Walter sounds like an obedient, servile robot. David, although he allied with Shaw at the end of Prometheus, experimented on his human crewmates and was frequently jealous and contemptuous of them. Now, I don’t know about you, but those opposite approaches to humankind like a great source for conflict to me. Ready? Fight!
David also seems to be pitched–if not as an outright antagonist–as a menace that awaits the crew. The movie’s official synopsis “begins with the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy. There, the crew discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.” Add this to the creepy piano picture on Twitter, and I’d say David will have some nasty surprises up his sleeve.
Honestly, this double-robot plot might get me into the theater. The full trailer for Alien: Covenant already looked promisingly more Alien-esque than Prometheus-like–but it didn’t seem to explore anything new for the franchise. However, if I get to watch android Michael Fassbender fight android Michael Fassbender, while also watching badass women torch alien monsters, I might just be down for this movie anyway.
(Via ComingSoon.net and /Film, image via 20th Century Fox)
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